Re: Thoughts On HBP—Oddities/Horcruxes/Snape/LOLLIPOPS/R.A.B

[benigs]

No: HPFGUIDX 133392

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Someone" 
<someoneofsomeplace at y...> wrote:
> •	The shedding of a number of over-cooked sub-plots made for a 
> leaner and more focused read IMO, but it still begs the question: 
> why did JKR develop them in the first place? What happened to SPEW? 
> Grawp? The DA?  The Sorting Hat's Message? Neville? Don't get me 
> wrong; I don't think this actually detracts from HBP—if anything, 
it 
> detracts from OOTP: what was the *point* of all those different 
> strands? If you ask me (and again this isn't a criticism of HBP in 
> itself) JKR seems extremely conscious of the fact that she went 
> *way* over length with OOTP, and here made a concerted effort to 
cut 
> down.

---->i also missed the whole SPEW subplot... I thought before the 
house elves would at some point would become pivotal in bringing down 
Voldy but without Dumbledore, who will rally them? As for Grawp, his 
role could be in the book 7... Didn't really miss the DA so much... 
For me, it already served its purpose in OoTP...


> 
> As for Harry not going back to Hogwarts, at least not in the normal 
> sense, I'm not too worried. The maneuvering of characters from 
> Privet Drive to the Burrow to Diagon Alley to the Hogwarts Express 
> to Hogwarts is starting to get a little monotonous IMO. With JKR 
> wanting to tie everything together in book seven, I suppose this 
> routine might just take up too much space in the final volume. 
> 

---> Well I am worried about Harry's not going back to Hogwarts. On 
one hand, that will be good since that will really bring Harry's 
story right in the middle of the war with Voldemort. I don't think 
the previous books' mechanisms of having a realtively peaceful year 
at school that suddenly comes to a boil in the end will work for book 
7. But on the other hand, the HP books are about Hogwarts as much as 
it is about Harry. I am just as curious to see the fate of the school 
after this whole ordeal is over...

Benigs